I Don't Care if This Makes Sense - Chilling Threadripper Pro 7000

[AlexTheGreatish]

We could properly review Threadripper Pro 7000, but since none of you will be purchasing one anyway we figured having a bit of fun with it was in order.

 

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[Levent]

1 minute ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

since none of you will be purchasing one anyway

correction, since nobody who will be buying one will be watching an LTT review of it.

[Elijah Kamski]

3 minutes ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

none of you will be purchasing one anyway

In the future, in a galaxy far far away

[CalhounTyphoon]

Super cool video - does the team submit scores for the world records to hwbot?

[Crunchy Dragon]

44 minutes ago, Elijah Kamski said:

In the future, in a galaxy far far away

I could see myself buying one in 10-15 years when they're all over the used market like LGA 2011 and 2066 Xeons.

[Beerzerker]

58 minutes ago, CalhounTyphoon said:

Super cool video - does the team submit scores for the world records to hwbot?

Whatever has been done with it so far, by whom is here so you can see if it's been done by the team or not:
https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/ryzen_threadripper_pro_7995wx/
https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/ryzen_threadripper_7980x/
https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/ryzen_threadripper_7970x/

https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/ryzen_threadripper_7960x/

[biotoxin]

if linus will promise to make the video I will write the script with instructions for $1 on how to use this processor for kvm/ proxmox/ unraid (since it's his fav for this kind of vid)

 

the difference is instead of basic vm's where everyone has to be reasonably close to the main machine, this time you'd setup thin clients

network / pixie booting into the vm's, or converting existing rigs to be full fat clients that only use the network for initial boot but then run with their local resources like gpu's but without any disk drives, and for something like windows even doing this with multiseating where you could have multiple users in the same vm instance.

 

I used my TR5k to setup a server kinda like this 

people can bring their own rigs or borrow a thin client and run from a vm

the vm image links to shadow copies of my game library and each time a user logs in it boots a fresh instance of that image which is destroyed on exit

it's some crazy fun stuff

 

not to mention all the other dockers and services running, tbh ram is still the biggest limiting factor but on ddr5 with ecc it might be worth the upgrade to not have to deal with that limit anymore

[Teh_troll]

57 minutes ago, biotoxin said:

if linus will promise to make the video I will write the script with instructions for $1 on how to use this processor for kvm/ proxmox/ unraid (since it's his fav for this kind of vid)

 

the difference is instead of basic vm's where everyone has to be reasonably close to the main machine, this time you'd setup thin clients

network / pixie booting into the vm's, or converting existing rigs to be full fat clients that only use the network for initial boot but then run with their local resources like gpu's but without any disk drives, and for something like windows even doing this with multiseating where you could have multiple users in the same vm instance.

 

I used my TR5k to setup a server kinda like this 

people can bring their own rigs or borrow a thin client and run from a vm

the vm image links to shadow copies of my game library and each time a user logs in it boots a fresh instance of that image which is destroyed on exit

it's some crazy fun stuff

 

not to mention all the other dockers and services running, tbh ram is still the biggest limiting factor but on ddr5 with ecc it might be worth the upgrade to not have to deal with that limit anymore

I'd love to see this.   I don't have a practical use for it but it's cool as heck.

[dogwitch]

the hardcore linus crew....

When they finale get hold of the 128 (256) AMD EPYC™ 9754  cpu....

 

 

[Average Nerd]

2 hours ago, dogwitch said:

the hardcore linus crew....

When they finale get hold of the 128 (256) AMD EPYC™ 9754  cpu....

 

 

They already made a video about that beast:

 

[dogwitch]

22 minutes ago, Average Nerd said:

They already made a video about that beast:

 

in a proper config. then the case they had. that need way way more cooling.

serve the home had same issue with cooling in none server box conifg.

also amd and partner want two socket  and up configs.

[ARandomPerson]

"So Alex had an idea."

[Mikro 7]

OK some data would be nice, measuring documentation/report? maybe?

[MostafaP]

Thank you for another great exotic video. That was really fun to watch.

 

While watching a question came to my mind that I decided to ask:

I definitely am not an expert at identifying the bottleneck spots (and it very well could be the Cities: Skylines 2 engine itself here) but just to make myself sure since you showed that there was an enormous load over the SSD arrays could it be that using an Apex Storage X21 or a Liqid LQD4500 Honey Badger (both of which you seem to possess by the way) might make the game run smoother? Also could it be that the RAM speed (not the RAM capacity) causes the bottleneck here? As we know 7995WX supports octa-channel memory arrays but the setup used in the video uses 4x16GB/4x32GB (quad-channel) memory modules and not using all the eight channels here practically means not maxing out RAM bandwidth. Again I'm talking about RAM speed NOT the RAM capacity as I know the game is more CPU-intensive than memory-intensive, but the speed the CPU is being fed at could be a major factor. Couldn't it? I'm just saying I'm not sure?

[g413n]

Hi, earlier this week I got a similar setup- threadripper pro 7965wx, Pro WS WRX80E, 4x64gb kingston, and 2x4090. Just put it together yesterday and it isn't booting into bios, with a 00 error code on the motherboard. Did you guys have to flash a firmware update for yours?

 

(nvm turns out it was just the 2nd cpu power connection being unplugged)

Edited January 26 by g413n
bugfix update

[TraxXavier]

Whats the passmark score of that monster when chilled?